A ruby gem that takes an RGB triplet and gives you a color name. Been using the XKCD Color Survey dataset (http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/) to find mappings for the color space to names. It has been a pretty interesting little project. Color is a pretty interesting topic.
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#332I am creating a new type of imageboard based on tagging content rather than isolating it to individual boards. Danbooru uses tags but lacks the traditional thread/reply model. http://1chan.us (NSFW)
A tag-cloud would be useful, no?
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#333Nation chess! Once at least ten people from a country are logged in they'll matched up in a chess game with people from a different country. The entire nation (or at least those who are logged in) votes on each move. I'd love some help if anyone is interested. I'm still in the planning phase.
I think it's a great idea! I'm sure a friendly chess game between nations will not end up encouraging nationalism and political division :)
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#334Personal Programming: A 4D videogame which displays 3D renderings of arbitrary hyperplanes and allows for arbitrary rotations (so you're not limited just to axis-aligned views). Leading up to that, a 3D videogame which is experienced via arbitrary 2D planes, displayed in raycaster-style 2.5D. Turns out to be incredibly difficult to navigate a 3D maze with only a 2D viewpoint....
Personal Not-Programming: Building a pair of 5-foot single staffs with woodburning decorations, metal end caps, and quarter pound lead weights embedded in the end for more angular inertia. Also trying to estimate the electric field in orbit around a pulsar for a science fiction story.
Professional: Building a web-based annotated media player for foreign language instruction that supports video, audio, and plain text, and provides a uniform interaction model for interactive text in plain text documents, transcripts, and subtitles with both automated annotations derived from electronic dictionaries and manually edited annotations.
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#336As a side project I've been working on http://saved.io a simple way to store bookmarks across devices
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#337Nothing very interesting. Still trying to find a purpose for this experiment in threaded feeds: http://precis.gopagoda.com/url/http://www.reddit.com/r/progr... http://precis.gopagoda.com/url/https://news.ycombinator.com/... Also teaching myself SDL2 because I want to try to make a game in C++. I was going to teach myself Android development this year but the emulator isn't even usable on this laptop i'm using. I'm al…
For Android emulation try this http://www.genymotion.com/
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#338just recently launched a service that will let you create interactive dashboards (pivot charts) off of your excel files. Got a huge influx of beta sign ups from HN and ProductHunt.com.
General Site: http://www.machete.io
Example Boards:
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#339A social data flow engine called Egont. You can take a look at these articles: - Egont, A Web Orchestration Language: http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-... - Egont Part II: http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/ You can define things like this using s-expressions: (let mytwitter (twitter "databigbang") Then you can do (twitterdb store (twitter.tweets)) and for every tweet your defines db…
Very nice. IFTTT was a nice first step, and I've been hoping more sophisticated solutions to the same problem would arrive. Do you see this being commercial software as a service or self-hosted?
He model that I have in mind is SaaS and releasing the software as open source.
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#340Working on a git GUI client called Rook, because I'm too unoriginal to do anything else, and I'm just sick of looking at all the ideas I could work on and not doing them.
Oh and working on building a controllable PSU Arduino shield with friends (for which I'm writing the software and learning electronics). That's actually fun!